My long awaited yarn crawl of New York happened yesterday and here’s the woolly goodness I brought home with me.

First stop was Knitty City. They had an incredible selection of yarns from ultra high end blends all the way down to Sugar ‘n Cream cotton. The staff was super nice and they even had a “man” chair for my husband to sit and read in while I shopped. I found 5 skeins of Tosh Merino Light in Stephen Loves Tosh for a sweater but I was unsure of the color (it was mostly golden yellow with a bit of purple). I decided I would wait on it and check out the other store in the area, The Yarn Company, to see what they had.

We walked over to the Yarn Company but they weren’t open yet so we hung out at Starbucks for a coffee and a morning bun. I talked to my mom while we were there and we both agreed that I couldn’t pull off yellow so sweater yarn from Knitty City was off the table. After we were finished, we walked over to The Yarn Company. I have to stay I wasn’t super impressed with the selection. It was mostly high-end yarns. They did have some Three Irish Girls and the Verdant Gryphon as well as some other exclusive yarns, but nothing really called out to me. The store itself was very neat and organized, not like the barely controlled chaos of Knitty City. I did end up making a purchase, some Great Adirondack Yarn Co Caribou superwash merino in Black Magic II which is a sport weight in 50g hanks. It was much more than I would usually pay for sock yarn, but I really liked the colorway.

We walked back over to Knitty City and there I grabbed a hank of Madelinetosh Pashmina in Golden Hickory (the colorway I really want to use for my sweater) and a bag of Koigu KPPPM mini skeins for my sock yarn blanket.

We hit the Lego store for the kids (and my husband) and then had Korean for lunch. Our next stop was School Products Yarn. Now if you’ve ever been, the store is not much to look at. They carry a lot of imported yarns and some unusual fibers ( I still have a ball of baby camel from my last visit three years ago that I have yet to do something with). I was hoping to score a cone of their Provence Lace Merino like I did three years ago, but they didn’t have any. I did buy a cone of the Lace Merino in a very pretty blue. The cone is a pound and a half so that works out to be 5,100 yards of yarn for $39.00. It’s definitely worth a stop to see what they have on hand.

We did a bit more shopping and then ended up at Purl Soho. It was nice, reminded me a little bit of one of my local LYSs, Loop. They had a decent selection of yarns and in quantity as well, They were all arranged in the front of the store so you had to use a ladder to reach the upper cubbies. There was also fabric and sewing notions in the back of the store. I had some hope of finding my Tosh Merino Light, but they only had semisolids. It was fairly crowded when we got there so I just didn’t have the patience to try and find their sock yarns. If I’m in the neighborhood again, I’ll probably pop in for a quick visit but I don’t think I’ll go down there just to stop at their store.

There are a lot of places that I just didn’t get the chance to visit or were closed. Seriously, who’s closed on a Saturday? I’m hoping to attend Vogue Knitting Live next January which should keep me busy enough that I won’t have time to visit any place else. All in all, I’m pretty pleased with my haul but a little bummed that I couldn’t get my sweater yarn. I already have plans to do Citron with my Lace Merino but I’m already dreading all that purling. I’ll have to look through my queue on Ravelry to find something to do with the rest of it, maybe something Estonian, I have a love affair with nupps. Even after that, I should still have enough for another shawl, if not two so we’ll have to see.